Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] what " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They view themselves as strategic transport authorities seeing what congestion problems can be solved by rail , ’ says Causebrook . |
| 2 | They chronicle current attempts to continue what they see as an amoral practice . |
| 3 | They have only to look south of the border at some of the experiences of their former workmates within public sector bus operations to see what the alternative propositions might be . |
| 4 | But last week the Russians admitted what aircraft experts have long claimed-that at least seven in 10 of its fleet have reached the end of their ‘ useful life ’ . |
| 5 | for example , too much weaving and rolling of bodies on the floor is hardly visible from the stalls , whilst too much concentration on one side of the stage finds spectators on the same side craning their necks to see what is going on . |
| 6 | They stood in a tight bunch and craned their necks to see what was causing the commotion . |
| 7 | They spend up to 3,000 hours bringing what look like rusty writeoffs back to pristine condition . |
| 8 | The social scientist must conduct a fair and balanced enquiry , not allowing personal or political values to affect what is discovered and reported . |
| 9 | So I phoned around various contacts to see what it would cost me to have a tank made up by the ‘ local chap that most enthusiasts and many dealers tend to have tucked away somewhere . |
| 10 | When this exploded , fortunately not fiercely enough to breach the wall of the vessel , the operators realized what was happening . |
| 11 | I had twenty minutes to see what I could do about his combination locks . |
| 12 | I think we 'll look at the news in a few minutes to see what the weather 's going to be and then , do you want any ice cream or anything ? |
| 13 | So he can only scan the pages of the TV Times to see what he 's missing . |
| 14 | People were using any of a large range of software products to perform what appeared to be the same basic tasks . |
| 15 | But towards the end of the eighteenth century the courts developed what Jay Cohen calls ‘ a more expansive definition ’ of the term , which made many non-traders eligible for discharge in bankruptcy . |
| 16 | Politically , therefore , the inducements to continue what the Plowden Committee call ‘ excessive social services ’ are much stronger than the inducements to discontinue them or to supplement any which may happen to be ‘ inadequate ’ . |
| 17 | In an actual campaign we would research these approaches with trial groups to see what changes need to be made . |
| 18 | Since it may take many hours to establish what influences the activity of a single cell , this is a far from trivial issue . |
| 19 | Harriet sensing , quite rightly , that this must have something to do with a man , failed to receive any response to the most careful attempts to discover what was wrong . |
| 20 | Both volumes of the Dictionary passed the censorship ( in 1845 and 1846 respectively ) , but Volume Two was proscribed a month after publication when the authorities grasped what the circle was up to . |
| 21 | It implies a certain commitment to the user and his or her needs , and it implies a particular kind of responsibility to ensure that the user has the skills to obtain what is needed : that is , to obtain the right information or material , in the right form , so that the user can benefit from it . |
| 22 | I shall suggest that these attempts to find what I call compensatory factors not only fail to be counterbalances , but also represent the undoing of Christology . |
| 23 | This sense is strong enough to motivate a succession of attempts to find what is interesting . |
| 24 | 4 Setting baselines ( 10 minutes to establish what the parents are to do ) |
| 25 | As the aim of many of the BES assured tenancy companies is eventually to obtain value by selling or redeveloping the properties when they are vacant , it would be useful for shareholders to know what the market value is with vacant possession , even if the present value with tenants in possession is also shown as a note . |
| 26 | How do the experimenters know what to look for ? |
| 27 | You have only to look through one or two stately homes to see what a great difference the architectural details — the cornices , mouldings , hardware on doors and windows , doors themselves — make to a room . |
| 28 | Now I think it 's in Alice in Wonderland , that it is said that words mean what I intend them to mean . |
| 29 | So wrote Mr Avray Tipping in 1918 , persuading the traveller to take the winding road from Shrivenham ( pronounced ‘ Shrinam ’ by the locals ) and to glimpse down its fine avenue of limes heralding what for all the world could be the Petit Trianon plucked from Versailles and set down here in Berkshire . |
| 30 | — try changing these settings to see what effect it has . |